By Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, 8/17/2017 In an effort to cut costs and boost profitability, Ericsson is planning to reduce its workforce by up to 25,000 staff, according to sources cited by Swedish newspaper ...

By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 8/17/2017
Comcast is now officially a wireless carrier with Xfinity Mobile available across the Internet provider's entire customer footprint. The company announced the news ...

By Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, 8/17/2017 China Unicom has unveiled details of its plan to issue and transfer stock to private investors and its staff in a move that will raise about RMB77.9 billion (US$11.67 ...

By Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation, 8/16/2017
While SDN and NFV are well-known elements of carriers' virtualization efforts, automation is the lynchpin that will help them reap the benefits of more agile ...

By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/16/2017 Verizon said Wednesday that it will invest in its 4G network to allow first responders priority access nationwide on LTE, in an apparent bid to take on the FirstNet ...

By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/16/2017 T-Mobile has turned on its first 600MHz 4G LTE sites, two months after the operator got the licenses to operate the low-band spectrum it won at auction earlier this year.

By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 8/16/2017 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Three years into its transformation to become a software and services company, Adtran is using its annual Connect event to cite some benchmarks on ...

By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 8/16/2017 The capacity for private data exchange is growing twice as fast as the public Internet, according to the first-ever Global Interconnection Index, unveiled today by ...

By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 8/16/2017 It's an art and a science to make mentorship, inclusive leadership, diversity and promotion of high-potential women work, says Honore' LaBourdette, vice president of Global Market Development at VMWare.

By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 8/15/2017 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- When CenturyLink rolled out its SD-WAN product last fall, the company used its relatively new minimum viable product or MVP network strategy, ...

By Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, 8/17/2017 In an effort to cut costs and boost profitability, Ericsson is planning to reduce its workforce by up to 25,000 staff, according to sources cited by Swedish newspaper ...

By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 8/17/2017
Comcast is now officially a wireless carrier with Xfinity Mobile available across the Internet provider's entire customer footprint. The company announced the news ...

By Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, 8/17/2017 China Unicom has unveiled details of its plan to issue and transfer stock to private investors and its staff in a move that will raise about RMB77.9 billion (US$11.67 ...

By Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation, 8/16/2017
While SDN and NFV are well-known elements of carriers' virtualization efforts, automation is the lynchpin that will help them reap the benefits of more agile ...

By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/16/2017 Verizon said Wednesday that it will invest in its 4G network to allow first responders priority access nationwide on LTE, in an apparent bid to take on the FirstNet ...

By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/16/2017 T-Mobile has turned on its first 600MHz 4G LTE sites, two months after the operator got the licenses to operate the low-band spectrum it won at auction earlier this year.

By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 8/16/2017 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Three years into its transformation to become a software and services company, Adtran is using its annual Connect event to cite some benchmarks on ...

By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 8/16/2017 The capacity for private data exchange is growing twice as fast as the public Internet, according to the first-ever Global Interconnection Index, unveiled today by ...

By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 8/16/2017 It's an art and a science to make mentorship, inclusive leadership, diversity and promotion of high-potential women work, says Honore' LaBourdette, vice president of Global Market Development at VMWare.

By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 8/15/2017 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- When CenturyLink rolled out its SD-WAN product last fall, the company used its relatively new minimum viable product or MVP network strategy, ...

5G is the next-generation mobile networking standard that will build on the global 4G LTE ecosystem and targets a raft of new service opportunities. The report investigates a critical part of the 5G system architecture: the 5G core (5GC).

This report forecasts the global DWDM opportunity for metro DCI from 2017-2021, including both the direct and indirect DCI equipment revenue opportunities. It also assesses metro DCI product specifications across suppliers and profiles all leading metro DCI equipment vendors.

Light Reading tours a series of 5G "super demos" so see how Intel envisions the 5G-connected future. We take a look at a prototype connected BMW, a light pole with environmental sensors that provides 5G wireless to a smart home and a fully untethered virtual reality experience.

Etisalat is a service provider that prides itself on bringing innovative technologies to the markets it serves. It was one of the first operators to implement 3G and leads the pack in fiber penetration. Now, Esmaeel Al Hammadi, Etisalat's SVP of Network Development, explains the operator's journey to virtualization, beginning with the network core, as well as the ...

Light Reading talked to George McGregor of Citrix about the NetScaler Mobile Gateway - an intelligent traffic management solution which can markedly improve the customer experience provided by mobile operators, even when traffic is encrypted. Critical network services can be consolidated and virtualized using NetScaler. Because of the unique architecture, ...

Ixia, Canonical and DataArt joined forces to demonstrate the viability and value of automating VNF verification. DataArt led the integration of products from all participants, with contributions from Open Source MANO (OSM) and Sonus, to create several demonstration solutions showcasing automated carrier-grade network testing and monitoring.

In this Thought Leadership Video interview with Light Reading, David Baylis outlines the concept of the open gateway, a.k.a the gateway of the future, and how strong partnerships and wider community collaboration are vital in this important new area of technological development.

He walks through a number of use cases that will start taking shape in the ...

We spoke with Eric Updyke, group president of Amdocs Services, at MWC, to learn what's behind Amdocs' new Intelligent Operations offering, and why it's a key enabler for CSPs to become digital players.

Digital transformation accelerating business success has become the norm for mobile operators. Veon Group (formerly known as VimpelCom), a leading global provider of telecommunications and digital services, has reinvented itself as a global tech company and brings a revolutionary Internet mobile platform to hundreds of millions of customers in the markets, through ...

It's an art and a science to make mentorship, inclusive leadership, diversity and promotion of high-potential women work, says Honore' LaBourdette, vice president of Global Market Development at VMWare.

Supporting women both inside and outside of Fujitsu is a top priority of the telecom vendor. Yanbing Li, Fujitsu Network Communication's director of System Software Development & Delivery, shares why it's important, but why there's still a long road ahead.

Liz Centoni, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Computing System Product Group, shares why mentoring in all its forms is important for women and what Cisco is doing that's made a difference for women in tech.

Guavus unites big data and machine intelligence, enabling many of the the largest service providers in the world to save money and drive measureable revenue. Learn how applying Machine Intelligence substantially reduces operational costs and in many cases can eliminate subscriber impact, meaning a better subscriber experience and higher NPS.

When used to analyze operational data and to drive operational decisions, machine intelligence reduces the number of tasks which require human intervention. Guavus invested in Machine Intelligence early. Learn about the difference between Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence.

Guavus unites big data and machine intelligence, enabling many of the the largest service providers in the world to save money and drive measureable revenue. Learn how applying Machine Intelligence substantially reduces operational costs and in many cases can eliminate subscriber impact, meaning a better subscriber experience and higher NPS.

When used to analyze operational data and to drive operational decisions, machine intelligence reduces the number of tasks which require human intervention. Guavus invested in Machine Intelligence early. Learn about the difference between Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence.

Hossam Salib, VP of Cable and Wireless Strategy at ADTRAN, outlines key trends as MSOs begin to deploy next-generation Gigabit and 10-Gigabit cable networks. In the interview, Hossam outlines the advantages of a Fiber Deep architecture, FTTH options including EPON and RFoG, and the importance of SDN and NFV in building next-generation high-bandwidth cable networks.

At ANGA COM 2017, Cyrille Morelle, president and CEO of VeEX, updates Alan Breznick with VeEX's new products and technology. This includes VeSion cloud-based platform for network monitoring, AT2500-3G advanced spectrum analyzer and MTTplus-900 WiFi Air Expert module. He also comments on DOCSIS 3.1 deployment and Remote PHY technology.

Versa CEO Kelly Ahuja discusses with Carol Wilson the current status and trends in the SD-WAN market, Versa's innovation around building a software platform with broad contextualization, and the advantages that startups can bring to the SD-WAN market.

ARRIS's John Ulm says a major accomplishment of SCTE•ISBE's Energy 2020 program is increased focus on power cost and consumption, including inclusion of energy requirements in operators' RFPs and RFIs.

Understanding the full experience of women in technology requires starting at the collegiate level (or sooner) and studying the technologies women are involved with, company cultures they're part of and personal experiences of individuals.

During this WiC radio show, we will talk with Nicole Engelbert, the director of Research & Analysis for Ovum Technology and a 23-year telecom industry veteran, about her experiences and perspectives on women in tech. Engelbert covers infrastructure, applications and industries for Ovum, but she is also involved in the research firm's higher education team and has helped colleges and universities globally leverage technology as a strategy for improving recruitment, retention and graduation performance.

She will share her unique insight into the collegiate level, where women pursuing engineering and STEM-related degrees is dwindling. Engelbert will also reveal new, original Ovum research on the topics of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, security and augmented reality, as well as discuss what each of those technologies might mean for women in our field. As always, we'll also leave plenty of time to answer all your questions live on the air and chat board.